The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-05-28
Railroad Notes.

Railroad Notes.
The Canadian Pacific will spend 81
100000 in the mountains this year in
widening the rock cuttings and the crec-
ton of snow sheds.
1t is reported that on or about the 1st
prox., both the Manitoba and Northern
Pacific will put on new merchandise rates
between the twin cities and points
west, the reduction on the present rates
being about 20 per cent.
The Secretary of the Interior has ap-
proved the appraisement of the right of
way of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Mani
toba railway through that portion of the
Blackfoot Indian reservation in Montana
under the jurisdiction of Fort Belknap
agency. The lands in question aggre
gate 1850 acres and are valued at 81 1903.
The distance covered is 1872 miles.
1t IS reported that Colonel W. P.
Clough, counsel for the Northern Pacific,
and one of the the ablest railroad attorneys
in the country, has severed his connection
with that road with the intention OF ac-
cepting position in the administrative
department of the Manitoba road. Au-
thoritatively it is stated tina the will leave
the employ of the Northern Pacific not
later than July 1st. .
Two vessels laden with steel rails ar
rived at the Northern Pacific docks in
Duluth a few days ago. One of them
brought in 900 tons and the other 1900
tons. The two a,goes, equal to 1856 car
loads, and enough to lay twenty-five miles
of road, are only first consignment of
the immense amount the Northern Pacific
will lay this season in Dakota, Montana
and west of the mountains.
The Montana Union is said to be
Strengthening its track in Silver Bow can
yon by running tangents till they strike
one wall or the other. This has the ef
feet of making zigzag track all along
the canyon, so that it would be impossi-
bic for another road to parallel it The
Montanan Central people who must run
their track through this canyon, are in
clined to believe that this policy of
Strengthening the Montana Union is 'e-
signed to embarrass them.
Washington special: The Pacific
coast steamship company, operating be-
tween San Francisco and Port Moody, B.
G., recently applied to the treasury de-
partment for permission to bond as COM
mon carriers for the transportation of du-
table goods and merchandise passing
from one point to another in the United
States. The route proposed is by steamer
from San Francisco to Port Moody, thence
over the Canadian Pacific railroad and
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go, and other American ports. The &C
tion has been approved by Secretary Fair
child and instructions sent to the collector
of customs at San Francisco to permit the
execution of the usual bond. The Pa
ci6c coast steamship company will be re-
sponsible for all goods transported under
bond over the entire route in Canada and
the United States. An agent of the
treasury department will be stationed at
Port Moody to supervise the trans-ship-
ment of goods from the steamer to the
cars, and vice versa This will make the
competing transcontinental route not SUBJ
ject to the interstate law.
Should Have Been Hung.
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